QUALITY AND SCIENTIFIC SERVICES LEAD

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GSK HQ, Belgium-Wavre, GSK Aranda de Duero, Burgos, Poznan Business Garden, UK - Angus - Montrose, UK - County Durham - Barnard Castle, UK - Hertfordshire - Ware, UK - North Ayrshire - Irvine, UK - West Sussex - Worthing Posted Date.
Oct Quality and Scientific Services Lead Closing Date for Applications – 29th October (COB) The Central GSC Facility Management (FM) Team provides Governance, Compliance and Improvement Leadership.
Its purpose is to “Manage on behalf of the GSC sites the delivery of Facilities Management (FM), promoting standardisation, quality improvement, collaboration and sharing across sites.
We will seamlessly support the sites to deliver their strategic mission to supply the Patient at the end of the Supply Chain.
To provide a quality strategy, assurance program and single point of reference for the delivery of facilities management via selected third parties.
To provide laboratory scientific services subject matter expertise.
Facility Management services are delivered by multiple GSK Enterprise wide third party contractors.
The Remit of Facility Management services includes hard engineering services and utilities, waste management, soft services, technical laboratory/scientific services, including minor works.
We create a place where people can grow, be their best, be safe, and feel welcome, valued and included.
We offer a competitive salary, an annual bonus based on company performance, healthcare and wellbeing programmes, pension plan membership, and shares and savings programme.
We embrace modern work practises; our Performance with Choice programme offers a hybrid working model, empowering you to find the optimal balance between remote and in-office work.
Discover more about our company wide benefits and life at GSK on our webpage Life at GSK | GSK In this role you will.
Provide SME support, guidance and goals for the cost effective and efficient delivery of laboratory services, ensuring contract partners continue to innovate best practices from both internal and external sources and deliver value to the GSC sites.
To ensure the IBM and IA elements of the Internal control framework and appropriate programmes are in place and delivered to meet compliance expectations of our QMS.
To ensure quality governance framework within facilities management model is in place and in use across the GSC network including sites, central team and partners.
To ensure our activities consider risk up front and throughout as activities change and risks are assessed to enable the team to prioritise and proportionately manage risk, considering the likelihood and impact.
Responsible for FM RMCB.
To work with the FM central team to establish and maintain strategic relationships across GSC Sites in order to identify and exploit synergies to drive standardisation, quality improvements and regulatory compliance.
Work with relevant stakeholders globally to ensure compliance requirements are met by our Service Partners, identifying, escalating and managing gaps and opportunities as appropriate.
Why you? Qualifications & Skills.
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals.
Certified level 2 auditor desirable or working towards completion.
Proven technical knowledge of quality, laboratory services, facility and utility operations, and/or projects in a GMP manufacturing and laboratory environment.
Highly developed rational persuasion skill set required as job holder will have ‘influence’ but no direct control over service delivery.
Critical thinking and flexibility in order to operate both strategically and tactically.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills including the ability to work across the organisation and interact/influence/negotiate effectively at all levels of management and peers.
Broad knowledge and experience to understand the links and identification / management of risks between business, Technical, Operational and Support aspects of program delivery.
Preferred Qualifications & Skills.
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus.
Degree or equivalent in engineering, quality or relevant technical discipline with membership of relevant professional body.
Appreciation and working knowledge of GSK quality systems.
Excellent planning and organisational skills; Getting things done.
Experience managing quality and compliance requirements of a service provider providing GxP services.
GPS and Lean Manufacturing experience.
Good data literacy to support trend analysis, DMAIC and RCA.
High energy level, pro-active self-starter.
Why GSK? Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.
GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive.
We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines.
We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).
Our success absolutely depends on our people.
While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive.
We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be.
A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued, and included.
Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing.
So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.
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